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May 5, 2010

Phoenix Suns to Protest Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law
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Opposition continues to grow against Arizona’s anti-immigrant law, which
allows police officers to stop and interrogate anyone they suspect is an
undocumented immigrant. On Tuesday, city councils in the Arizona towns
of Flagstaff and Tuscon both passed measures to sue the state over the
new law. Meanwhile in California, the Oakland City Council unanimously
voted to boycott Arizona. The National Basketball Association’s Phoenix
Suns have announced their players will wear jerseys showing their team
name as “Los Suns” in a playoff game tonight to protest to the new law.
Today is also the Mexican holiday of cinquo de mayo. On Tuesday, Phoenix
Suns point guard and NBA All-Star Steve Nash spoke out against the law
in an interview with ESPN.

Steve Nash: “I’m against it. I think this is a bill that really damages
our civil liberties. I think that it opens up the potential for racial
profiling and racism, and I think that it’s a bad precedent to set for
our young people, and represents our state poorly in the eyes of the
nation and the world. I think we have a lot of great attributes here and
I think it’s something we can do without and hopefully it will change a
lot in the coming weeks.”



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